"It's something that he talked about and created a kind of amazing aura around," Mr. Lethem said, "so that people have an image of it as if it's some kind of consummated effort.
It was a consummate team effort, but two players stood out.
But one doesn't make films by oneself, and Bleak Moments was a consummate team effort.
The road to success for the Sainsbury's and Argos tie-up is still beset with potholes and landmines, despite the supermarket's best efforts to consummate the marriage.
That process was repeated on lap 52 when he stopped for the second time and he was back in the lead again on lap 55 for the 22-lap run to the fin ish which he completed with consummate efficiency and economy of effort.
The consummate perfectionist was the embodiment of discipline, maximum effort, and intense dedication.
"In an effort to buy the time necessary to consummate the Cap Gemini sale at the maximum price, E.& Y.'s auditing division brought in E.& Y.'s consulting division," the complaint says.
When the movie prospects falter, Billy astutely hears "the almost imperceptible slackening of ego and effort that denotes the triage mode of the consummate pro".
"Hexion remains obligated to use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the necessary financing and to consummate the transaction," Russ R. Stolle, a Huntsman spokesman, said.
It is a consummate irony that ultra-nationalism has been repackaged for voters as an effort to regain local control, protect national boundaries and reassert the dominance of local ethnic groups.
CHICAGO — James A. Johnson, the consummate Washington insider whom Senator Barack Obama tapped to head his vice-presidential search effort, resigned abruptly on Wednesday to try to silence a growing furor over his business activities.
